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When Worship Is Reduced to Music: Recovering a Full and Biblical Vision of Christian Worship

Worship concert bathed in vibrant lights

This article challenges the common Evangelical habit of equating worship with music and calls the church to recover a fuller, biblical vision of worship centered on Christ’s saving action through Word and sacrament. While affirming music, emotion, and heartfelt singing as God-given gifts, it argues that worship is more than sound and atmosphere—it is the Triune God ser...

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Epiphany: The Light for the Nations

Epiphany

Epiphany reveals Christ as the fulfillment of God’s promise to Abraham, as Gentile worshipers are drawn to the light of Israel’s Messiah and the blessing of salvation goes out to the nations....

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The Problem with the MacArthur Study Bible’s Commentary on 1 Peter 1:2

1 Peter 1 2

This article exposes a serious theological error in the MacArthur Study Bible’s commentary on 1 Peter 1:2, which mistakenly imports the works-principle of the Mosaic Covenant into the New Covenant. By requiring a believer’s “promise of obedience” for covenant entrance, the note confuses law and gospel, collapses justification into sanctification, and undermines the...

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Every Church Has a Creed: Why Evangelical “Mission Statements” Are Not Enough

Articles of Religion

Many Evangelical churches replace historic creeds with corporate-style mission statements, valuing vision over confession. Drawing on Carl Trueman’s The Creedal Imperative, this post argues that every church has a creed—whether public and accountable or private and untested. Reformation Anglicans, by contrast, embrace the ancient creeds “proved by most certain warran...

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The Next Big Thing vs. the Old Paths: A Reformation Anglican Critique

The Nicene Creed Papyri

American Evangelicalism often chases after “the next big thing,” driven by novelty and personality rather than confession and continuity. In contrast, Reformation Anglicanism finds stability and joy in the “old paths” of Scripture, creed, and confession. Drawing on Carl Trueman’s The Creedal Imperative, this essay shows why creeds are not lifeless relics but livi...

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Why Lordship Salvation Is Not a Secondary Doctrine: A Reformation Rebuttal

The Gospel According to Jesus

This article offers a pastoral response to a chart circulating on social media titled “Keeping Doctrine in Its Place,” which misclassifies Lordship Salvation as a secondary issue and, in doing so, risks confusing believers about the very heart of the gospel. Drawing on R. Scott Clark’s 25-part critique of John MacArthur’s The Gospel According to Jesus, it argues th...

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Repetition Is Formation: Why Historic Liturgy Runs Deeper Than Evangelical Novelty

1662 BCP General Confession

Many dismiss the Book of Common Prayer’s liturgy as “mere repetition,” but repetition is what forms us in Christ. Rooted in the Reformation, Anglican worship shapes our hearts, grounds us in Scripture, and offers deeper gospel fluency than the shallow novelties of modern Evangelical worship....

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Reformation Day Reflection: Nicholas Ridley and the Lord’s Supper

Nicholas Ridley

On Reformation Day we remember Bishop Nicholas Ridley, martyred in 1555, whose Brief Declaration of the Lord’s Supper defended the gospel against transubstantiation. Ridley taught that in Holy Communion believers truly receive Christ by the Spirit through faith — not by the bread changing into flesh — so that faith, not fear, is the way of communion....

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Justified by Faith Only: A Reformation Anglican Critique of the Catechism of the Catholic Church

Article 11 Of The Justification of Man

This article contrasts the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s teaching on justification with the Reformation Anglican doctrine confessed in the Thirty-Nine Articles. Whereas the Catechism presents justification as an infused, cooperative process involving grace and merit, the Articles proclaim the biblical gospel of justification by faith only—Christ’s righteousness ...

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Mary and the Gospel: A Reformation Anglican Response to Today’s Vatican Ruling

Of Purgatory

This article examines the Vatican’s recent doctrinal note Mater Populi Fidēlis (“Mother of the Faithful People of God”) from a Reformation Anglican perspective. While the note rejects the Marian title Co-redemptrīx, it leaves untouched Rome’s official teachings on cooperative grace and Mary’s ongoing intercessory role as Mediātrīx. Drawing on the Catechism of...

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The Marks of the Church Are the Mission of the Church

St Paul's Cathedral baptismal font

This article explains how the mission of the Church is defined by its marks — preaching, baptism, and the Lord’s Supper. These means of grace are God’s strategy for delivering Christ to His people and sending the Church into the world....

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